Concerning the Anderson Family by William Edward Anderson

I was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on May 16, 1899 at t1:00 A.M. My father's name was Thomas Edward Anderson; and my mother's, Anna Aliza Snyder Anderson. I had a half brother George (Father was married previously and his wife had died); two brothers and a sister, John, Fred, and Mary; and two half-sisters, Mabel and Hazel Flickinger, for my mother married again after my father's death. I also had seven stepbrothers and sisters, Mr. Flickinger's children by a former marriage.

My father died on August 19, 1906, from typhoid fever and pneumonia leaving my mother with four small children and two farms. I later had a very serious bout with typhoid fever which killed hundreds at that time.

When I was about eleven, I went to work for and lived with Wallace Dick and his wife. He was a progressive, well to-do farmer. I worked for my board, clothes, and twenty-five cents per week. He sent me to school. When I finished the eighth grade I went to live with Weldon McCoy, his brother-in-law on the same terms and went to West Middlesex Pennsylvania High School. At the end of two years, he died and I went to work for Jacob Hoffman until I finished high school. During the summer he paid me twenty dollars per month to run his fifty acre farm while he worked in the steel mills.

In August (or September) of 1918 I went into the Army (World War I) and was sent to the Student Army Training Corps at Westminster College. When the war was over I enrolled in Westminster and was graduated in 1922 with an A.B. degree.

During each summer I worked in the steel mills in Farrell and Sharpsville to help pay the tuition for the next year. Fortunately, it was only thirty dollars per semester, !later forty dollars. I fired the furnace and cleaned the cellar for an old lady named Mrs. McKelvie in return for my room at college. I worked in the college chemistry storeroom or swept floors in the afternoon and waited on tables in the girls' dormitory dining hail and studied when I could, but managed fairly well.

Upon graduation I went to Egypt to teach in Assiut College for three years and traveled widely during vacation periods. When I returned to America, I got married and started to teach in Eanon Valley, Pennsylvania, as assistant principal. I later went to Campbell, Ohio, where I taught till coming to Akron in January, 1926.

George's mother, Winifred Marie Pape Anderson, was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, or September 24, 1898. She had three brothers and four half-brothers and two half-sisters. Her father was Edward Thomas Pape, of English-Italian descent, sent to this country by the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Her mother was Annie Manock, an English woman who taught school in Bedford, Pennsylvania, where she lived with her brother James Manock and his wife. Both of Winifred's parents are buried in Utica, New York. Winifred was a piano and voice teacher in the Utica Conservatory of Music and the Bronx School of Music in New York city.

The earliest knowledge I have of the Anderson family is rather hazy. But for what it is worth, they were in the service of the Stuarts, the ruling family of Scotland. When Mary Stuart married the Dauphin who became King of France, our ancestor went with her as captain of her guard and while there married a French Countess. When Mary's husband died without leaving an heir, Mary was treated shabbily and returned to Scotland to become queen of that country. The guard returned with her; and when Mary was captured and imprisoned, and beheaded by Queen Elizabeth of England, our ancestor became one of the caretakers of her son James; who became James VI of Scotland. Upon Elizabeth's death he became James I of England, thus uniting England and Scotland. Our ancestors still served James and James had no money to pay them with, so he gave them a whole county in North Ireland near Belfast. They were Scotch Presbyterians, and that area is still Protestant. When James' son Charles I became the new king and Cromwell rose against him, he called upon his father's friends to help him and they lost. Almost all his supporters were declared enemies of the people and imprisoned. Most property was confiscated; and some were put to death, our ancestors included. So three Anderson brothers, John, Robert, and Charles, fled to America some time after 1650. One, I believe Robert, went to the Carolina's; Charles, to Western Virginia; and John, to Pennsylvania. They were forced to go to the frontiers, for Cromwell's agents, bounty hunters, came to America to seize any that could be found.

Our ancestor, John Henry Anderson, hid among the Cornplanter Indians for nearly five years in northwestern Pennsylvania before it was deemed safe, when Cromwell's death was reported and Charles II became king of England. He then settled in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, near what is now Pittsburgh. The land was purchased in 1783. Later descendants of my Grandfather Anderson moved to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, near New Castle. Later the family lived in Kinsman, Gustavous, and Poland, Ohio, where I believe my father was born and went to school. Most Anderson families consisted of four children, three boys and one girl (for several generations).

In Beaver County, Pennsylvania, lived Sir Alexander Clendening (or Clendening). He was the youngest son of an Irish lord. He was reputed to have been seven feet, eight inches tall. His (granddaughter), Abigail Edwards, who lived at Enon Valley, Pennsylvania, married my grandfather, John Henry Anderson. They had four children: Roy, who died while young; Alexander, who was a close friend of William McKinley, was graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and became a Judge; Thomas Edward, my father, was the youngest boy; there was a sister, Mary, who married a man by the name of Shields. My grandfather was killed in the Civil War, and my father died in 1906.

My father married twice. His first wife, Alice Moore, died leaving one son, George. Father later (1893) married my mother, Anna Snyder. At the time, he was fortyfour and she, nineteen. They had four children, John Andrew, William Edward, Frederick Alexander, and Mary Ann.

John died at forty-one leaving two children, Martha and George Glenn, both of Sharon, Pennsylvania. Fred died at sixty-two. He left four boys and three girls. He lived at Greenfield, Pennsylvania, near Mercer. Mary married twice, died at fifty-five, and left one son, Paul Doer of Sharon. My mother's people, the Snyders, were all very Dutch or German. They came originally to New Amsterdam; but when the English took over, they left and went into Pennsylvania, where they prospered. Snyder County was named after them. Johnathan Snyder, my great grandfather, [was a descendent of Governor Snyder), governor of Pennsylvania for three terms. My mother's father was Joel Snyder who was a businessman in Mercer, but had been a school teacher and cattle buyer in Campbell, Kentucky, where my mother, Anna Aliza Snyder, was born. Grandfather eventually moved to a farm in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where he farmed, preached, and played the fiddle. There were six children, Frank, Clinton, Ellen, Laura, and Johnathan (who died young), and my mother.

My grandmother Snyder's name was Reighard, and she died in Kentucky when my mother was born. The Reighards, like the Snyders, are Pennsylvania Dutch; and there are many of them in Pennsylvania.

Many of the Snyders are buried in the church graveyard at Fredonia, Pennsylvania, which is on the Mercer-Greenville Road near Mercer. My mother is buried there too.

Winifred is buried in the Masonic Cemetery Memory Lawn Memorial Park on 719 N 27 Ave., in Phoenix, Arizona. She died February 6, 1956. Her grave is marked and is to the left as you enter, near a little shrine.

September 15, 1997 -- Family note from Hanshi Anderson, about Lt. Col Daid Anderson ,ret USAF. My son has now retired from the Air Force and has moved to Albany, NY. David's retirement party notes follow:

BIOGRAPHY Lieutenant Colonel David G. Anderson

Lt Col Anderson was born in Akron, Ohio on 19 Mar 51 . In Jun 73, he obtained a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Akron and was commissioned through AF ROTC.

From Jun 73 to Jun 79, he served in the Air Force Audit Agency, first at Kadena AB, Japan and then at Andrews AFB, MD. While at Andrews, he was assigned for six months to the Surveys and Investigations Staff, House Appropriations Committee, U.S. Congress where he helped investigate the cost effectiveness of the $800m Emergency Medical Services Program. He recommended significant legislative changes and was personally commended by the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

On his own time, Dave became a CPA, a Certified Internal Auditor and obtained a Masters Degree in Business Management from Central Michigan University. His score on the Nov 75, CPA exam was the second highest in the State of Maryland.

In Jun 82, Lt Col Anderson attended law school under FLEP at the University of Tennessee. He graduated first in his class (I of 173) with highest honors.

In Aug 82, Dave was assigned to the Base Legal Office at Wright-Patterson. There he served as Chief of Civil Law and later as Chief of Military Justice. In Dec 83, he moved to Castle AFB, CA to serve as Deputy SJA, Chief of Military Justice, and to advise on contracts and environmental issues. While at Castle, the SAC IG rated his military justice branch "Outstanding," the first SAC military justice branch to be so rated in over five years.

In Aug 86, Lt Col Anderson left Castle to get an LL.M. in Government Procurement Law at George Washington University. He graduated with Highest Honors and the ABA published his thesis "Recovery of Indirect Costs in the Pricing of Equitable Adjustments and Terminations for Convenience' as a monograph.

In Aug 87, Lt Col Anderson was assigned to the Air Force Contract Law Center (AFCLC), Directorate of Acquisition Law Services at Wright-Patterson AFB where he saved in numerous capacities, including counsel to the F-15 and Maverick Missile Programs, ASD's expert on conflicts of interest, and for 15 months as a division chief. In Oct 90, Dave was assigned to the Directorate of Contract Appeals, his present position. There he helped litigate the $95m Lockheed C-5B defective pricing case, was lead counsel on the $220m GTE Consolidated Space Operations Center case and lead counsel for quantum on an Aerojet $100m satellite salver case.

Lt Col Anderson is a member of the Ohio and Tennessee Bars. He is married to the former Joyce M. Zehr of Waverly New York. Joyce is an employee benefits attorney with General Electric. They have two children, William E. and Betty.